BASEBALL DAILY REPORT : DODGERS : Dodger Contingent Calls On Dreiforts

With only six days left for the Dodgers to sign their number one draft pick, a contingent of club officials including Executive Vice President Fred Claire will travel to Wichita, Kan., today to meet with the parents of right-handed reliever Darren Dreifort. The Dodgers must sign Dreifort before he returns for his senior year at Wichita State on Aug. 23, or they will lose their rights to him.

The Dodgers and Dreifort have been at a stalemate since the club offered Dreifort a $900,000 signing bonus and a minor league contract with a September call-up to the Dodgers this season, according to Carol Dreifort, Darren’s mother.

“We want a three-year major league contract and a bonus equal or more than the $1.65 million the Yankees gave Brien Taylor,” Carol Dreifort said Tuesday.

”. . . We feel badly that it has gone this far but the Dodgers have known what we have wanted from Day 1 and it hasn’t changed. I hope they can come close to what we want, or it will be three wasted plane tickets.”

Claire will be accompanied by scouting director Terry Reynolds and in-house attorney Sam Fernandez.

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Claire said the Dodgers are interested in left-hander Joe Magrane, who asked the St. Louis Cardinals for his release on Sunday and was placed on waivers. Magrane is 8-10 in 20 starts and two relief appearances this season. If Magrane, 29, is not claimed by a club--which would pick up six weeks of his annual $738,000 plus-incentives contract--he will become a free agent on Thursday.